What it’s like to live through LA’s long deportation summer
“What remains are places that used to be: a shuttered restaurant, empty benches on weekends at MacArthur Park and even an abandoned taco stand, meat still on the grill hours later. The silence is the point.
Beneath that silence, behind locked doors, is a population in hiding. They were dishwashers and garment factory stitchers. They sold fruit on the street. This is the echo of the city they left behind."
Popular CA restaurant manager detained by ICE for ‘stupid’ 25-year-old crime
"Psalm Behpoor, 42, said he’s a much different person than he was when he was arrested for burglary a few days after turning 18. He’s a family man now who had started to develop a third stream of income when he was detained by ICE on June 23. Almost two months later, he is still in detention in Bakersfield, and is waiting for his court date."
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What the fast food industry is telling us about the economy
"Chains including IHOP, Denny's, Wendy's and Sweetgreen all warned of declining sales and softer foot traffic.
'Right now we have highly leveraged consumers,' said Sally Lyons Wyatt, a Circana adviser, in an interview with the Financial Times. 'It's going to take a lot of levers being pulled in order to get consumers more comfortable to spend more money out of home.'"
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